BLUE BUS - Your Mind's Moving Too Fast
This album was sold to me on the promise of containing previously unreleased US 60's garage psyche with great guitar work featuring controlled feedback and trippy wah wah fuzz. Perhaps I was therefore expecting too much, and was bound to be slightly disappointed. 'Locomotive' is a short instrumental to open proceedings, and 'There Was A Place' has the requisite fuzz guitar and farfisa organ, but a slight tune and no searing solos. Mike LaTant takes over writing and vocal duties for 'Black Candles', but his voice is not really suited to the material and generally Roman Oles' contributions are better. His 'The Third Level' has a nice garage-style guitar solo, as do a number of the other tracks, but there is definitely no screaming fuzz or wah wah guitar on here. Once I got over my disappointment at the lack of acid fuelled guitar tripping I was left with a pretty good psyche/garage band trying their best to break the market with a nice selection of self-penned demos. 'Be What You Are' and the title track might have made it for them if they had been picked up, and their cover of Love's 'Signed D.C.' is a reasonable stab, but I think that I would have preferred Oles' vocals to those of Chris Larson. Overall then not a bad album, but not up to my expectations and so hard to recommend over other more worthwhile efforts.